.NET: Manage Azure Managed Disks

We are announcing beta 5 of the Azure Management Libraries for .NET. Beta 5 adds support for Azure Managed Disks.

Today, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Managed Disks – it simplifies the management and scaling of Virtual Machines. Specify the size and disk you want to use for Virtual Machines. You do not have to worry about creating and managing Storage Accounts.

Create a Virtual Machine with Managed Disks

You can create a Virtual Machine with an implicit Managed Disk for the operating system and explicit Managed Disks for data using a define() … create() method chain. Creation is simplified with implicit creation of managed disks without specifying all the disk details. You do not have to worry about creating and managing Storage Accounts.

Try It

You can run the samples above or go straight to our GitHub repo. Give it a try and let us know what do you think (via e-mail or comments below). Over the next few weeks, we will be adding support for more Azure services and applying finishing touches to the API.